Taipei, Feb. 28 (CNA) World acclaimed director Hou Hsiao-hsien encouraged Taiwan’s youth on Saturday to remember the 228 Incident through his 1989 film “A City of Sadness.” The Lung Ying-tai Cultural Foundation hosted a screening of Hou’s film at Taipei City’s Zhongshan Hall to encourage a new generation of Taiwanese to watch and discuss the [...]

Taipei, Feb. 27 (CNA) Renowned film director Liu Jia-chang and his wife — a former movie actress under the stage name Chen Chen — voluntarily returned to Taiwan from Hong Kong Friday to face the law, as the two have been wanted on suspicions of embezzling funds from two private art companies. Liu and his [...]

Government Information Office (GIO) Minister Su Jun-pin (蘇俊賓) yesterday said his office would help publicize the nation’s human rights situation after a report by the US State Department mentioned persistent human rights problems in Taiwan. When approached for comment on his way to the Legislative Yuan, Su said the government remained highly confident of Taiwan’s [...]

The Green Party Taiwan yesterday prevented the Taipei City Government from felling a tree on the site of the former Songshan Tobacco Factory after one of its members climbed the tree. The Songshan Tobacco Factory was established under Japanese colonial rule in the 1930s. In 2006, the Taipei City Government signed a contract with the [...]

Kaohsiung City Government officials said the city would replace 2,000 bus stop signs with bilingual ones and install more LED displays along the Kaohsiung metro system as part of its preparations for the 2009 World Games this July. Speaking at the inauguration of 81 full-color LED panels at the Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system’s [...]

With the Chinese-language newspapers Apple Daily and China Times poised to branch out into the field of television, the National Communications Commission (NCC) said yesterday that it would strive to prevent media enterprises from monopolizing news sources. Jimmy Lai (黎智英), founder of Next Media, which owns the Apple Daily, said in a recent interview in [...]

A government-run hotline — 0800-770-885 — to aid and rehabilitate drug abusers will go into operation tomorrow, officials said on Thursday. The hotline aims to help drug addicts kick their habit and start a new life. It is estimated that 1 percent of the nation’s population is addicted to drugs. “Drug addition has become a [...]

The Executive Yuan passed a bill on Thursday to fine emailers as much as NT$2,000 (US$58 at US$1:NT$34) for each junk mail they send without receivers’ permission. According to the National Communications Commission (NCC), junk mails are mails from business, religious and political organizations and the bill targets business mails at first. NCC officials said [...]

Motive Power Industry Co. Ltd. (PGO brand), a major powered two-wheeler (PTW) manufacturer, recently claimed that it aims to ship 45,000 PTWs globally this year, up from 42,000 in 2008, including the newly developed e-ByBu dual-power (lithium-ion and lead-acid batteries) electric scooter e-BuBu.Motive Power also targets to win a 5% share in Taiwan’s PTW market [...]

The annual growth of Taiwan’s broad money supply-M2-shot up to 7.17% in January this year, a new high since February of 2006 and already breaking the target growth range of 2.5%-6.5% set by the central bank for the year.In the same month the annual growth of M1A and M1B, Taiwan’s other two major money supply [...]